Bharat Rakshak

Shanmukh

The PLAAF have repoetedly inducted more H-6 bombers at their rear bases equipped with LTR stand-off missiles,numerous special forces helos,etc.for a brigade size airborne assault. They will try to grab a price of land which is atleast tactically important to them and which they can resupply in wint...

Shanmukh

Sorry, but your analysis doesn't work out. India is keeping what belongs to it. In fact, despite being stopped from patrolling in many places and salami slicing due to continuous intrusions, India has kept things mostly on an even keel. Your analysis of Chinese motivations does not answer, BTW, wha...

Shanmukh

What's the motivation for each side to escalate tensions there? I feel that my analysis of potential Chinese motivations is reasonably thorough and I couldn't find a compelling reason for China to do so. Sorry, but your analysis doesn't work out. India is keeping what belongs to it. In fact, despit...

Shanmukh

Thank you for the detailed responses, jamwal and Shanmukh! Suraj-saar, I have only listed cases where people SURVIVE and suffer damage. If things go bad, HACE/HAPE can kill a person quite rapidly, especially in combination with other factors like hypothermia [the combination of these two is utterly...

Shanmukh

If HACE/HAPE occur, there can be permanent damage to the retina [retinal haemorrhage] and lungs [pulmonary oedema can damage the lungs]. But most effects should be reversible with proper care.

Shanmukh

Can the Chinese hire Nepalese mercenaries - a few thousand of them, to operate in the mountains? Given how close Oli is to the Chinese, they may be able to do such a thing, no?

Shanmukh

Folks-this is just on the point of the Tibetans. I have been studying Tibetan language for the last year and a half and keeping my ears to the ground regarding the Tibetan sentiment. Also, now, I can read Tibetan language decently [though I am very far from being an expert]. Funnily enough, my reaso...

Shanmukh

Twitter reporting Chinese vacating Moldo garrison and moving back to Rutog - is this a hint of Chinese preparing for an assault?? Great if the Chinese are voluntarily vacating Moldo. We should welcome it, thank them for their wisdom and move in. We can liberate Moldo - since the LAC is undefined, w...

Shanmukh

Where is the Odisha police when you need them? I've never been a fan of this anti indigenous development, pro US base bit of confetti. However, there are plenty in the ether, that go gaga over his crazily vascillating statements. https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1301167979283898369 https://twitt...

Shanmukh

Lol funny the former Mongolian president chimed in. He realizes that Mongolia uses Cyrillic, and only in Inner Mongolia can you find actual Mongolian characters, right? That is not exactly true. Cyrillic was imposed in Mongolia in 1946, at the height of the USSR powers. After the collapse of the US...

Shanmukh

So Ujghur, Tibet and Hongkong are in rebellion against China. What are the pros and cons of encouraging these areas in their fight for freedom against Cheenis? Should India provide support to them? Tibet, for sure, is a core Indian concern. Not just as a card to play against China, but due to our o...

Shanmukh

Do you have a precise reference for Albright saying that India should be split into 29 countries? Shanmukh - I am not certain if it is 26 or 29. Somewhere in that vicinity. As far as the reference is concerned, it was during one of her talks on Kashmir and during the timeframe when she was Secy of ...

Shanmukh

Hmmm even a boontown like Iraq was a threat to Sam so much so that they created multi generational damage through their cluster bombs. India is already a threat which is why Albright way back had said it should be split up into 29 countries. Do you have a precise reference for Albright saying that ...

Shanmukh

Looking at the map, it is clear that Chabahar is also in Baluchistan [Iranian Baluchistan, but Baluchistan, all the same]. Wiki chacha, while not giving the exact composition of the population of Chabahar, hints that the population is majority Baluch in Chabahar county. Should the Chinese get hold o...

Shanmukh

How many times did Hitler or Nazis referred to their cross as swastika? Have not seen it at all. For everyone - Rosenberg, Himmler, Hitler himself, Goebbels, etc - it was always `Hakenkreuz'. How many times did Jewish before WW2 used any words like save us from swastika? Despite reading a lot of He...

Shanmukh

The interesting point is that the Swastika for Hakenkreuz is an imposed translation. The Germans called it Hakenkreuz (hooked cross). The older French texts called it the `croix gammée' (cross with a gamma). However, the translation of `swastika' has become so popular that even in French these days,...

Shanmukh

The biggest advantage on our side is that LAC is closer to settled populated places. On the Chinis side, the only people for hundreds of miles are PLA soldiers. Their real population center is in Xinjanj. Their closest decent habited place is probably Ngari. It is also rather small, but it is an ol...

Shanmukh

Besides the IN, the other navies in the IOR are too small. If a shooting war starts between the US and China, then India needs to launch an offensive and reclaim the borders as they were set in 1947. The last opportunity was in 1979 when Vietnam and China had a border war. India could have launched...

Shanmukh

I have a newbie question - what is it that China hopes to gain by taking over Chabahar when it already has Gwadar? I mean-apart from the negatives of keeping the Indians out? Is there a commercial angle to the Chinese trying to take over Chabahar? Or is it a back-up in case the Gwadar thing comes to...

Shanmukh

You have to start somewhere, but India is not an expansionist power. Making extravagant claims will cause extravagant losses. It's another matter that once Gilgit-Baltistan is taken back it could trigger Tibet and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions to seek self-determination or join greater India. Vidhi k...

Shanmukh

How about we play the same game as the Chinese and start claiming areas to the historical boundaries claimed by the Dogra kingdom? P.S... How do I resize the image? Why are we limiting ourselves to the historical claims of the Dogra kingdom? We need to start claiming the boundaries of the Kanishkan...

Shanmukh

China has apparently $2.34 billion invested in India. https://thediplomat.com/2020/05/indias-china-fdi-gamble/ If they decide to take that money out and back, how much do they stand to lose [I assume that not all of that money can be converted back to RMB/$ and moved out], according to current rules?

Shanmukh

Xi's new wall of China that will bankrupt Indians. darshan, the Chinese history shows that actually projects like Great Wall, Southern Canal, new Capital city like Beijing bankrupted the Chinese. While this is true, the Chinese won't leave until we throw them out. They won't fight-they will simply ...

Shanmukh

Starting a Tibetan/Mongolian TV/radio and broadcasting programmes would be a good initiative to connect to these people. AIR has started a Tibetan language service recently. Is there a Chinese language (Mandarin) service yet? If not, we should start that as well. The service has been there for quit...

Shanmukh

Sir, do you really think China gives a hoot to India on this policy? They are ignoring the entire world and moving forward. Chinese have created an iron curtain so even CIA could not create demonstrations and riots. At the moment, they may not. But there is no reason to oblige them and declare our ...

Shanmukh

I have no problem with diplomatic moves. However, they're effectively moves that can be stepped up, paused or reversed as dictated by policy needs, and there will be corresponding shrill noises about our border and territorial aspects. Suraj-saar, As I said, I was exploring only the diplomatic opti...

Shanmukh

By aligning with non-existent groups within China, or non-existent freedom movements which could appeal to only a micro minority of residents of China, you are not going anywhere. I refer to the Turkestan/Tibet and Mongolia ideas. Our deep civilizational links cut no ice, sorry. Chinese are amused ...

Shanmukh

People have been focussing on the economic and military retaliation here. Let us give some thought to the diplomatic retaliation we can do. I am focussing only on the diplomatic moves possible here. And also, this is not just what the government can do, but also things that WE, as citizens, can do. ...

Shanmukh

With 1000+ cases today, (worse than I expected), I don't see the lock-down being lifted. The best I think we can expect is a partial lifting, so some economic activity restarts - with a more complete lock-down in the hot spots. My concern is we don't have the resources to enforce a complete lock-do...

Shanmukh

More than 1K cases coming just today, with 410 of them from Maharashtra. I am afraid Maharashtra may have got into the community spread stage. This is going to be really hard to contain now.

https://www.covid19india.org/

Shanmukh

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/polish-student-asked-to-leave-india-for-attending-anti-caa-rally/20200301.htm Polish student asked to leave India after attending anti-CAA rally Edited By: Hemant Waje March 01, 2020 A Polish student of Jadavpur University has been asked by the Foreigner Regional ...

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US soft on Pakistan, which is trying to get off the `Grey List' in FATF. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pak-likely-to-stay-in-fatf-grey-list-over-inadequacy-in-curbing-terror/story-KcHfsyAvR18zMrZzvL6mcL.html However, diplomats from both European nations [neither of the two European count...

Shanmukh

Number of refugees who have come into India since 1971 - Calculated here by Saswati Sarkar, Dikgaj and yours truly. https://sringeribelur.wordpress.com/the-potential-beneficiaries-of-caa-numbers-from-bangladesh-pakistan-and-afghanistan/ Number of illegal migrants of the `community that must not be n...

Shanmukh

The full partywise results of the Telangana urban local body polls are here.

https://tsec.gov.in/AbstractResultReport.se

The full candidatewise results are here.

https://tsec.gov.in/knowPRUrban.do

Shanmukh

Trust a Brit to be contemptuous of India. Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, UK, has this to say about us, In Russia and Hungary, the threat of global integration has intensified a historical rejection of outsiders and sense of national grievance. Their leaders have turned to national culture a...

Shanmukh

@Ramana-garu,
Is that Olaf Caroe's book? If so, it is available on archive here.

https://ia802600.us.archive.org/17/item ... 306822.pdf

Shanmukh

@Chanakyaa-garu
Thanks for the information.

Shanmukh

A question for the US gurus here. How come Minnesota always elects rabid Muslims like Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar, etc? A look at the demography shows that Muslims are not so numerous in Minnesota. So what gives here?

Shanmukh

PAF F-16 losses we know about: # 85609 - collision with wild pig This was lovely. I didn't know about it, but here is the related news link. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/06/16/F-16-knocked-out-by-wild-boar/4437550814400/ By the way, instead of buying the F16s, may be we should buy the wild pig...

Shanmukh

X posted from the Partition thread. Here, Saswati Sarkar, Dikgaj and I look at the number of Muslims killed/expelled from Jammu. As usual, all comments/criticisms are welcome. https://sringeribelur.wordpress.com/the-partition-riots-and-attendant-demographic-changes-in-the-state-of-jammu-and-kashmir/

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